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PNSWSH
Public Information Notice
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
725 AM EST Fri FEB 24 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
-Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees
From: David B. Caldwell
Director, NWS Office of Climate, Water and Weather
Services
Subject: Soliciting Interest in Providing a Cold Advisory
Product or Service to the Livestock Industry through
June 22, 2012
Through June 22, 2012, parties who are interested in providing a
Cold Advisory for Newborn Livestock (CANL) product should advise
the NWS of their interest and interest or intent.
From April 2010 through May 2011, the NWS accepted public
comments regarding an experimental Cold Advisory for Newborn
Livestock (CANL) product. This product, which is a graphical
depiction of the potential for weather related impacts to
newborn livestock, is issued to help users reduce newborn
livestock losses due to hazardous weather. Additional
information is online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/pns10canl.txt.
The NWS received and evaluated 20 comments regarding this
experimental product. The majority of the comments indicate that
this type of cold advisory is useful to the livestock industry and
is a valuable resource. Some comments, however, did question
whether this particular service should be provided by our partners
in the private sector rather than by the NWS.
Based upon this issue, the NWS has decided to survey the weather
enterprise (including the private sector, academia, and other
government agencies) for interest in meeting this need for the
livestock industry.
Additional information about the experimental CANL product is
online at:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/ggw/canl/canl.html
For more information, or if you plan to pursue implementation of
this type of service for the livestock industry, please contact:
Eli Jacks
National Weather Service
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
301-713-1858 x110
elliott.jacks@noaa.gov
National Public Information Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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